[EC-NCSG] Open issue: all candidates+nota

[Tapani Tarvainen]

This case was left open in the call.

I recall Monika arguing for simply invalidating such a ballot,
indeed explicitly having it as a way to invalidate one's ballot
if someone wants to.

Glen offered notifying such voters so they could vote again
in case it was a mistake.

I rather tend to agree with Monika, but could easily be
persuaded either way. If we want to have Glen do that
we'd have to decide how many times and how close to the
deadline it'd be done - how persistent someone would
have to be to have their ballot invalidated.

Maybe just one note and if that's ignored, then assume
it was deliberate. We could instruct Glen to phrase
the note in such a way that it makes this clear.

Tapani

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 12:59:15PM -0400, Sam Lanfranco (lanfran at YORKU.CA) wrote:

> I agree that this is how it is now supposed to work, but what happens if
> someone votes for all candidates, and NOTA?

In that case the vote is invalid.

Technically it would apparently be possible to notify the voter of
this situation and ask him or her to vote again. We discussed this but
didn't decide if that should be done, as time ran out.

-- 
Tapani Tarvainen

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